Reimagining the Office for ‘The New Normal’ | SPACE10
Reimagining the Office for ‘The New Normal’ Share Mail 17.02.21 5min read Share Mail Photo—Hampus Berndtson Written by Alisa Larsen We continuously adapt our space to the needs of our team, and to the
The brutal mirror: what the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life
When I finally puked on the fourth night, I felt an odd sense of pride. Inside the loud, stuffy ceremony room, people were laughing, crying, chanting, gyrating, and, yes, vomiting, around me. When my
A Ghost's Life – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Kuncan, Spring Landscape , 1666. The Cleveland Museum of Art Op-Ed A Ghost’s Life by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Responding to our fractured sense of reality, Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee looks to the
Who is my boss (anyway)?
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Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980 , before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Bla
Welcome to Your Bland New World
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How Extinction Rebellion Is Changing Its Climate Activism
The honeymoon for Extinction Rebellion , the hugely influential climate activist group, ended on Oct. 17, 2019. From its launch, a year earlier, until that day, it seemed like the group might have cra
Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Te
Leading scientists set out resource challenge of meeting net zero emissions in the UK by 2050
Specimen of the mineral cobaltite - a cobalt iron arsenic sulphide PRESS RELEASE First published 5 June 2019 A letter authored by Natural History Museum Head of Earth Sciences Prof Richard Herrington
On Monopolies, Apple, and Epic – iA
On Monopolies, Apple, and Epic Google has built a complete monopoly on search. Amazon uses the sales data of its resellers to continuously expand and solidify market dominance. Facebook copies the com
Tourist Detraction | Rafia Zakaria
“There is no room for tourists in a world of ‘displaced persons,’” the author Evelyn Waugh declared sulkily. The year was 1946, and the world was still reeling from the depredation and devastation of
The Big Green Lie - CounterPunch.org
WWF recently released (June 5 th , 2020) a short video of British “national treasure” and conservation icon, Sir David Attenborough, telling us that “suddenly” saving the world is within reach. He say
Gegen die Klimakrise brauchen wir kein neu designtes System, sondern gesellschaftliche Kontrolle der Märkte – Lost and Found
Anders Levermann hat in einem Interview in der letzten Woche festgestellt (Levermann ) : Einen Systemwandel können Leute gern fordern, dafür gibt’s auch legitime Gründe, aber das Klimaproblem müssen w
„Generation haram“: Schule und Migration radikal neu denken
2016 hatte Erkurt unter dem Titel „Generation haram“ einen vielbeachteten Artikel für das Magazin „biber“ geschrieben. Darin ging es in erster Linie um muslimische Burschen, die Mädchen in den Schulen
Für eine "Cancel Culture"
Die ZEIT publizierte gestern einen offenen Brief von ungefähr 150 Autor*innen, der laut eigener Überschrift ein Plädoyer “für mehr Liberalismus in den Debatten” sein sollte. Der Text selbst war eine Ü
The Loss Of Public Goods To Big Tech - NOEMA
Credits Safiya U. Noble is an associate professor at UCLA, co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and a faculty advisor to the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute. She is the author o
“Zeugin des Undenkbaren”—die australische Klimaforscherin Joëlle Gergis über ökologische Zerstörungen und neue Klimamodellierungen – Lost and Found
Katastophennachrichten über das Klima folgen immer schneller aufeinander (Tharoor ) . Die Waldbrände in Sibirien, aber auch die Hitze hier in Europa sind Signale dafür, dass wir inzwischen auf dem ste
How to foster ‘shoshin’ | Psyche Guides
Christian Jarrett is a senior editor at Aeon+Psyche, with particular responsibility for writing and commissioning at Psyche. A cognitive neuroscientist by training, his books include The Rough Guide t
The Secret Lives of Fungi
In 1957, a man from New York named R. Gordon Wasson published an article in Life about two trips he had taken, three decades apart. The first was to the Catskills, in New York, where his wife, Valenti
Living with Just Enough | Global Oneness Project
By now we are all extremely familiar with the litany of challenges we face as a global species, the threats of scarcity which pit state against state and community against community, problems manmade
The Bee Whisperers of Slovenia Have a Plan to Save Colonies From Climate Change
W hen Peter Kozmus stepped off his plane from New York at Ljubljana airport in Slovenia in 2017, he expected to quietly grab his suitcase at the baggage carousel and make his way home. Instead, when h
From no recycling to zero waste: how Ljubljana rethought its rubbish
F rom the lush green hill you can see Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia , in the distance. Populations of deer, rabbits and turtles live here. The air is clean and the only signs that we are standing
Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets To
Last fall, the students in one of my writing classes alerted me to a wildly popular YouTube channel , run by an organization called Chillhop Music . The channel’s description was gentle, unassuming: “
Amsterdam to embrace 'doughnut' model to mend post-coronavirus economy
The Royal Palace Amsterdam, which is closed to the public until further notice because of the coronavirus crisis.Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images A doughnut cooked up in Oxford will guide
Frank Chimero · The Burnout List
The Burnout List January 8, 2020 I am a man who knows burnout. Last summer, I found myself in the deepest work-related hole I’ve experienced. I spent some time (with help) looking at what parts of my
There’s no guarantee your product strategy will work. Here’s how to de-risk it. | Jeff Gothelf
Recently, a long-term client of mine sent me an email with the question below (scrubbed for anonymity) after we’d spent close to a year together building a set of objectives and key results (OKRs) for
The Meta Trending Trends: 2020
First, three high-level observations: I. Over my last three analyses, several trend themes continue to thrive: Environmental Concerns, Prioritized Mental Wellness, Evolving Identity Boundaries , and A
Making “Freemium” Work
Leer en español Over the past decade “freemium”—a combination of “free” and “premium”—has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups and smartphone app developers. Users get basic fea
The dark side of the Nordic model
Scandinavians have it all. Universal public healthcare and education that is the envy of the world. Reasonable working hours with plenty of paid vacation. They have some of the highest levels of happi
Citizens' panels ready to help Macron set French climate policies
In a grandiose 1930s building on the banks of the Seine in Paris, 150 French citizens chosen at random had gathered. Ranging from 16-year-old school pupils to carers, shuttle-bus drivers and retired r
What reduces our personal CO2 footprint? We have no clue!
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Without Dust and Heat
Recently Netflix has been testing the option of letting viewers watch prerecorded programming at 1.5x speed (a feature that already exists on YouTube) so that users can consume more content in less ti
To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight | Quanta Magazine
neuroscience To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight September 24, 2019 A brain circuit that suppresses distracting sensory information holds important clues about attention and othe
Here's 2018’s Wildest Clothing Tech Innovations
As this year winds down we’ve recapped its highlights to bring you the best of 2018 in fashion, sneakers, music, movies and more. In 2018, with sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey celebrating its 50th b
Startups Need a New Option: Exit to Community
Founders create startups for all sorts of reasons. Often, the motivation is a mix between the founders’ desires to do well for themselves and to do something worthwhile for others. Dreams of greatness
Klimaneutralität schon 2025?—Die Argumente Tim Jacksons
Im Juli hat Tim Jackson in dem Aufsatz Zero Carbon Sooner—The case for an early zero carbon target for the UK begründet, warum Großbritannien wesentlich früher als—wie derzeit geplant—bis 2050 CO2-neu
How to keep buildings cool without air conditioning – according to an expert in sustainable design
The warmer it gets, the more people crank up the air conditioning (AC). In fact, AC is booming in nations across the world: it’s predicted that around two thirds of the world’s households could have a
My manifesto for a post-carbon future
For two centuries the left was understandably relaxed about time. The arrow of time, which in nature produces complex systems out of simple ones, had replaced feudalism with capitalism, the proletaria
Welches politische System verarbeitet die Daten der Bürger für die Bürger besser: Demokratie oder Diktatur? | NZZ
Welches politische System verarbeitet die Daten der Bürger für die Bürger besser: Demokratie oder Diktatur? Der israelische Historiker Yuval Noah Harari zählt zu den Vordenkern der Digitalisierung. Je
Shell’s boss delivers some hard truths on oil and climate change
Jul 6th 2019 W HEN BEN VAN BEURDEN was a boy in the Netherlands, one of his chores was to fill the coal scuttle. It was a hateful task—especially in the cold weather when he had to traipse out to a sh